White Slave Crusades
Subtitle: Race, Gender, and Anti-vice Activism, 1887-1917
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: January 9, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780252030253
Subjects: American history; Ethnography; U.S. History - 20th Century (General); Women - 20th Century History; Social Science; Sociology; USA; Ethnic Studies - General; Slavery; Women's Studies - General; Social Science / Women's Studies; United States - 20th Century; 19th century; 20th century; History; Prostitution; Racism; United States
First sentence: During the early twentieth century, individuals and organizations of different political stripes launched an extraordinary effort to eradicate forced prostitution, or what was commonly known as "white slavery."